How do we get from talking point to reality?

As a candidate for House District 75, I have been asked by voters about my position on the Black Lives Matter movement. I believe that this current movement for racial justice is a reminder of how much work we still have to do.

I grew up on a farm in Montana in a mostly white community, so I don’t know what it feels like to grow up Black or American Indian. But I have not been blind. I have seen firsthand how Black and Indigenous people have been treated differently by police, landlords, and employers.

As a law student in Washington DC in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I watched as police randomly pulled over cars filled with law students if a Black student was driving, but not when a white student was driving. I also saw Black students get ticketed for jaywalking while white students jaywalked without hassle.